biography
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| lived:
| (1741–75)
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| biography:
| Physician and Revolutionary patriot, born in Roxbury (now part of Boston), Massachusetts, USA. Meeting John Adams while inoculating him for smallpox, he turned revolutionary, making a number of anti-British speeches at Faneuil Hall, writing articles, and mediating for removal of troops after the Boston Massacre (1770). One of three chosen to write a report on colonists' rights (1772), he dispatched Paul Revere and William Dawes (1775) on their famous rides. He was chosen president pro tempore of the Provincial Congress (1775). Appointed head of the committee to organize a colonial army, and made major-general, he was shot dead at Breed's Hill. |
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